India and China: Interactions through Buddhism and Diplomacy

Underscoring the unique and multifaceted interactions between ancient India and ancient China, India and China: Interactions through Buddhism and Diplomacy collates the classic works of the preeminent Indian scholar of Chinese history and Buddhism, Professor Prabodh Chandra Bagchi (18981956). The volumes essays provide a wide-ranging and thorough investigation of both Sino-Indian Buddhism and cultural relations between the two ancient nations, and are accompanied by a variety of Bagchis short articles, English translations of a number of his Bengali essays, and contemporary articles analyzing his contribution to the wider field of Sino-Indian study.